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UN / POPULATION DAY ADVANCER

According to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), censuses and population data play a critical role in development and humanitarian response and recovery. On this year's World Population Day (11 July), UNFPA asserts that rights of everyone to be counted, especially women, girls, the poor and marginalized. FILE

Duration:01:32Date:09 July 2010

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United Nations Television, United Nations Mission in Sudan, World Health Organization, POPULATION, POPULATION DYNAMICS, United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire

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STORY: UN / POPULATION DAY ADVANCER
TRT: 1.32
SOURCE:  WHO / UNTV / UNMIS / ONUCI	
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE - WHO - SEPTEMBER 2004, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

1.	Aerial shot, city view
2.	Pan right, shantytown

FILE - UNTV - 2009, YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA

3.	Wide shot, traffic in Yogyakarta

FILE - UNTV - 30 APRIL, 17 MAY 2010, JAKARTA

4.	Wide shot, Central Jakarta traffic roundabout
5.	Wide shot, census workers walking in central Jakarta neighborhood
6.	Med shot, census worker Fitri Diansari walking into house
7.	Med shot, census worker asking questions
8.	Close up, census form
9.	Wide shot, census team walking
10.	Wide shot, census team interviewing cell-phone retailer
11.	Med shot, census team interviewing older man
12.	Close up, census worker and homeless women by railroad tracks
13.	Close up, census worker talking to homeless young woman under overpass

FILE - UNMIS - 22 APRIL, 2008, ED DAMAZIN, SUDAN

14.	Med shot, candle burns 
15.	Med shot, enumerators writing on census paper
16.	Med shot, enumerator with homeless person Hassan Adallah writing down his information
17.	Close up, enumerator's hand writing on paper
18.	Med shot, Hassan Abdallah and CBS Director while filling his details
19.	Close up, census paper

FILE - ONUCI - 4 NOVEMBER 2008, ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE

20.	Various shots, fingerprints being taken on an electronic device

STORYLINE:

This year World Population Day, marked on 11 July, highlights the importance of data for development. The focus is on the 2010 round of the population and housing census, data analysis for development and United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) lead role in population and development.

Good demographic data is critical for planning schools, health systems and public transportation, for designing policies based on future population projections, for monitoring the effectiveness of service delivery and much more.

According to Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, good data is critical for evidence-based policies and programmes for improving people's lives. She noted that while timely and reliable data is routine in richer countries, many resource-constrained developing countries struggle to conduct the censuses and surveys that they need for effective planning.

In 2009, UNFPA supported 77 governments' national population and housing censuses and paved the way for other censuses in 2010. Some 60 countries are collecting data and counting people as part of the 2010 census process.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a statement, said that "access to good data is a component of good governance, transparency and accountability" and helps leaders and policy-makers to make informed decisions about policies and programmes to reduce poverty and hunger, and advance education, health and gender equality.

World Population Day was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989.

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